Some of our APIs are meant to be polyfills, and some of them are not. It's great to expose the polyfill-type ones using the standards-based symbols. E.g. FileEntry, requestFileSystem.
For the custom ones though, I think it's important for devs to realize that the APIs they are using are custom to Cordova, and will never work in other browsers. Examples: Camera: window.Camera InAppBrowser: window.open() globalization: navigator.globalization There's been some talk about deprecating the window.plugins namespace. But why? I think it would be clearer if these apis were: Camera: plugins.camera InAppBrowser: plugins.inappbrowser.open globalization: plugins.globalization This makes it much more clear that the APIs are not browser-based ones, but Cordova-specific. If the rational to get rid of the plugins is to save on a global symbol, how about using cordova as the namespace? cordova.camera.getPicture() cordova.inappbrowser.open() corodva.globalization.getLocale() aka: cordova.$PLUGIN_NAME.exports Thoughts?
